CAS Fourth Quarter Allegro on 28 OCT [Update#2]

The list of players who have pre-registered themselves for CATEGORY 1 in the upcoming Allegro as of 13th October 2012 as listed below:

1. FIKRI SALEH
2. SALEH ABD LATIF
3. Wan Tarmizi Wan Sulaiman
4. Muhd Faris Aminuddin
5. Muhd Faqih Aminuddin
6. Nur Faqihah Aminuddin
7. Jax Tham
8. Mohd Faizal Roslan
9. Lim Kian Hwa
10. Shahrizal Shamsuddin
11. Manimaran Kuppusamy
12. Emir Rusyaidi (Pd)
13. Cheah Eason (Pd)
14. Lee Zhi Wei (Pd)
15. Bick, Gabriel J
16. Jahadi, Ashkan (Pd)
17. Strubbe, Paul [elo 1532]
18. Low Chee Pang (Pd)
19. Low Jun Keat
20. Aram Varahram
21. Iskandar Rashid
22. Chew Zhi Xuan
23. Ho Chen Ee (Pd)


While, the list of players for CATEGORY 2 is as follows:

1. Sakthiveelan Balakrishnan
2. FAHIM AL-FAQEH SALEH
3. Hendry Lim Wei Win
4. Anthony Tan (Pd)
5. Raja Bazilah Bot Raja Badli (Pd)
6. Raja Bazil Bot Raja Badli (Pd)
7. mohd dzul hafizin mohd noor
8. Nur Faiqah Aminuddin
9. Ivan Sean Yap Sheuan (Pd)
10. Bryan Yap Chuan Yoong (Pd)
11. Nalina Suria Manimaran
12. Ellie Emira Syaimimi (Pd)
13. Cheah Jason (Pd)
14. Lee Zhi Yan (Pd)
15. Marcus Leong Tjen Wye (Pd Chq)
16. Benjamin Leong Tjen Ho (Pd Chq)
17. Vignesh Ramanan
18. Aida Suriana Abdul Razak
19. Aiman Syazwan Abdul Razak
20. Sakinah Muryadi
21. Adly Syahromy Abdul Razak
22. Adiba Shahrul Baharin
23. Chew Zhi Qi
24. Chan Kit Wai (Pd)
25. Tan Qian Hui
26. Ng Jun Khai (Pd)
27. Lim Kai Xian (Pd)
28. Lim Qi Yang (Pd)


For those who would like to join CAS Allegro on 28th Oct, please send your name to selangorchess@gmail.com A softcopy of the infosheet is available here or visit this webpage

Source from CAS Website

CTEP (New Intake - 20th October 2012)

Dear Parents,

Would you like to see your children improve the ability to calculate in maths, or able to focus for a longer period in doing things, or perhaps represent our country in Chess?

I would like to inform that a new intake for children who are currently at Elementary level in Chess (National Rating between 1000 to 1200) will commence from Now until 18th October 2012.

The first class will begin on 20th October 2012 (Saturday) from 5pm to 7pm. Each semester consists of 10 lessons. Venue: SS 14, Subang Jaya. For those who are interested in enrolling your children for the group-based CTEP, please contact Mr. Lim @ 012 - 298 4922 for more information.

Join the CTEP Now! A programme that produces National Boys U-12 Champion for a record of 7 times in 9 years!!!

MCF Chess Rating List (OCT 2012 Release)

You can download a copy of the rating list here.

This rating list shall be used in the upcoming Chess nationally-rated events i.e.

1. UPSI Open (13/10 & 14/10)

2. Insofar October @ KL (21/10)

3. CAS Fourth Quarter Allegro @ KL (28/10) [Closing Date for Pre-registration: 21/10]

4. 4th Ole-Ole Shah Alam Chess Open @ Shah Alam, Selangor (3/11)

5. 18th Kepong Juniors Open @ KL (4/11) [Closing Date with Payment: 22/10]

6. Age Group Chess Tournament Pre School Holiday @ Ipoh, Perak (4/11)

7. 1st Summit Juniors Open @ Subang Jaya USJ, Selangor  (11/11) [Limited Seats for U10, U12, U14 and U16]

8. National Rapid Open Chess Championship  @ Tronoh, Perak (17/11 & 18/11)

9. National Rapid Age-Group Chess Championship @ Tronoh, Perak (17/11 & 18/11)

1st Summit Juniors Open on 11 Nov @ Summit USJ

I'm glad to inform that a chess tournament will be held at The Summit USJ, Subang Jaya on 11 Nov 2012. This one day tournament shall be divided into 4 categories namely Under-10, Under-12, Under-14 and Under-16.

These 4 categories shall have an accumulated cash prize of RM 2,000 to be distributed among 40 prizewinners. The Champion in each Category shall be receiving RM 150 Cash + Medal + Certificate of Achievements. The entry fee for each person is RM 12 only (Among the lowest entry fee for a Nationally-rated event).

We accept limited entries only due to space constrain, so you need to pre-register yourself as quickly as possible by sending an email to tsepin@gmail.com stating down your name, H/P Number  and category that you wish to contest. All entries will be accepted based on "first comes first serve basis with payment received" followed by "first comes first serve basis on pre-registration" .

The Closing Date for Registration with Payment on 4th Nov 2012 (Side note: Payment can be made on 4th Nov @ SJK(C) Kepong 2 where the school is organising the 18th Kepong Juniors Championship. Click here for more info. Registration for Kepong Juniors Open is still open until 22nd Oct. So hurry to register yourselves for the event which offers free doorgift for every participant, free drinks, free lunch pack, free cakes/snacks and lucky draws too). You can see me @ Kepong 2 to make the payment for 1st Summit Juniors Open. For other modes of payment, I will advise you accordingly via email, or call me @ 012 - 298 4922.

The Infosheet for the event as listed below:

The Entry Form for the event as listed below:

Yoo too can get a copy in PDF format, click here.

CAS Fourth Quarter Allegro (28/10/12, Update#1)

The list of players who have pre-registered themselves for the upcoming Allegro as follows:
1. FIKRI SALEH
2. SALEH ABD LATIF
3. Wan Tarmizi Wan Sulaiman
4. Sakthiveelan Balakrishnan
5. FAHIM AL-FAQEH BIN SALEH
6. Hendry Lim Wei Win
7. Anthonay Tan (Pd)
8. Raja Bazilah Bot Raja Badli (Pd)
9. Raja Bazil Bot Raja Badli (Pd)
10. mohd dzul hafizin mohd noor
11. Muhd Faris Aminuddin
12. Muhd Faqih Aminuddin
13. Nur Faqihah Aminuddin
14. Nur Faiqah Aminuddin
15. Jax Tham
16. Mohd. Faizal Roslan
17. Ivan Sean Yap (Pd)
18. Bryan Yap (Pd)
19. Lim Kian Hwa
20. Shahrizal Shamsuddin
21. Manimaran Kuppusamy
22. Nalina Suria Manimaran
23. Emir Rusyaidi (Pd)
24. Ellie (Pd)
25. Cheah Eason (Pd)
26. Cheah Jason (Pd)
27. Lee Zhi Wei (Pd)
28. Lee Zhi Yan (Pd)
29. Bick, Gabriel J

The segregation of players into two categories will be done after the release of October Rating list due on 15th October. However, the rating list is likely to be released around 10th Oct for use in UPSI event schedules on the 13th & 14th Oct.

For those who wish to join CAS Allegro on 28th Oct, you need to send your name to selangorchess@gmail.com A softcopy of the infosheet is available here or visit this webpage.

Source taken from CAS website

CAS Fourth Quarter Allegro on 28th Oct 2012

CAS will be organising her next 1-day event on 28th October 2012 @ Arthur Tan Chess Centre, 4th Floor, Wilayah Complex, KL. This event is supposed to be organised on 7th October but we had decided to shift the date towards end of the month due to school examination.

CAS has decided to improve on the value of main prizes to attract more chess players to join the Category 1. Click here to download the event inforsheet. If you are interested to participate, please pre-register yourself for the event by sending an email to selangorchess@gmail.com by 21st October 2012. Your support towards CAS-organised chess activities are very much appreciated.

 

Source taken from CAS website

CAS Third Quarter Allegro from my perspective

This event is held @ Arthur Tan Chess Centre, a regular home for CAS events. Usually, I can arrive at 8am since registration begins from 8.30am and Round 1 will be played an hour later for 7 rounds with Prize Giving Ceremony at 6pm. A very predictable routine indeed. However, it may not be the case this time. The registration time begins from 8am to 8.30am to make way for Round 1 to start at 9am. As usual, players begin to walk-in around 8.30am and registration closed at 9am. I had to blitz through the removal of names, Round 1 starts at 9.15am.

CAS has re-introduced the incremental time into the 1-day rapid event where 10 seconds increment shall be added to each move made by the player during the game. The main advantage for the Player is that he never run out of time anymore as long as a move is made before the time reach 0. While, the main advantage for the Arbiter is that he no longer need to make any decision on players who claim a draw under 2 minutes rule. As for the Organiser, no shortage of manpower as the need to have more arbiters servicing at the end of each round due to players "2 minutes rule" claim will never arise anymore. As for the Spectator, the atmosphere in the tournament hall while watching the remaining games at the end of each round is less tense. Well, it looks great for all parties.

Now, comes the main disadvantage for the Spectator is it kill off the excitement to watch both players blundered in the game especially when the timing reach critical level say less than half minute. As for the Organiser, each round have to start late if experienced players go into Bishop opposite colour endgame where the game may exceed 120 or even 150 moves with no end in sight and refuse to draw. For your information, a typical chess schedule with increment time is built based on 60 moves per game. In this case, 70 minutes per round. A 120-move game in every round will set back the schedule by 20 minutes for every round. This will add another 2 hours to the schedule for a 6-round competition. As for Arbiter, he shouldered a huge responsibility to make sure the event is able to finish as per schedule, else the Organiser reputation is at stake. Do you still remember one event that was played from 9am until midnight several years ago? While, the Player may find the increment time is a nuisance because he never need to use it anyway and some too find it so fascinating to end the game with a huge plus time to their clock. One instance that happened in this event, a player had 40 minutes in his time (plus 15 minutes from starting time) when his game ended after 30 minutes of play into the round. So, he needs to play at least 90 moves to get a 15 minutes extra in his clock assuming he took 0 second to play each of the 90 moves. Can you imagine how many moves did he played in the game? Luckily, this only happens to player who is trigger happy with the chess clock button, rather than playing the game itself.

CAS is the first organiser in Malaysia to introduce Rating category tournaments. I still remember the days when I proposed this 'out of the world in Malaysia context' idea to my Exco during one of those regular meetings. I was shot left, right and centre by my very own Exco for many reasons ranging from the added costing to strong and firm believers in Age-Group tournaments or just Single Open Category tournament format to the readiness of players. I was very fortunate to be given the greenlight to implement the idea by the very same Exco at the end of a furious brainstorming session. The motto by the President is 'Always allow the person who does the work to implement his idea and more importantly Exco must give full support to the implementer'. No sabotage among Exco members, once a decision is finalised. This is the culture within CAS.

Today, many organisers are copying this Rating Category idea on prizes to attract players at all levels. CAS too has attracted 81 pre-registered names for Category below 1400 rating aka Cat 2, and 24 pre-registered names for Category 1400 and above rating aka Cat 1. On tournament day, 24 players were paired on Cat 1 and 65 players were paired in Cat 2.

In Category 1,  Dr. Ronnie Lim as top seed, Kamaluddin (2nd seed), Muhd Syazwan (3rd seed), followed by two Exco namely Jax Tham and Fariz to round up the top five seed. Actually, Ian Udani  supposed to be the top seed but he pulled out on eleventh hour. His place was taken over by fellow filipino Villanueva, Nelson who was not seeded, unintentionally, because he did not declare his elo rating to the Organiser. He started his campaign by defeating Emir, the one of the two U12 players, that qualified into Cat 1. Next, he drew with Faizal Roslan before defeating Fariz. After lunch, he scalped Jax and Ronnie before settling for a draw against Nor Ilhamuddin for a simple 4 wins and 2 draws to claim the 1st prize.  Actually, Nelson has a rating of elo 2278 (I found out after 3 rounds of play). The complete crosstable result for Cat 1, click here.

Where as, Category 2 is expected to be contested keenly as the top five players are separated by a mere 14 rating points. Fahim Saleh as top seed with NR1398, Christine Lee (2nd seed), Meor Airil (3rd seed) and Muhd Haziq (4th seed) from Pahang, and Chew Zhi Xuan (5th seed) with NR 1384. Fahim campaign suffered a huge blow when he lost unexpected to Jayakumar (18th seed) in Round 2. In the following round, the remaining 3 highest seed were upset by players seeded in mid-teens. This gave 5th seed, Zhi Xuan, who defeated giant-killer Jayakumar who is more than 4 times his age in Round 3 to become the new favourite into Round 4. He will be challenged by Viknesh (7th seed) and Eu Sheng (10th seed). Zhi Xuan continues his fine form to beat a more experience Zu Hao to set up a Championship match against Eu Sheng. He got 5 wins in a row and just need a draw against the remaining challenger, 14 y.o. Viknesh who is trailing him by half point. The boys fight it all out for their first ever CAS Championship in their chess playing years. Viknesh was winning at one stage before 10 y.o. Zhi Xuan unleashed a tricky tactical combination to recover back the lost piece to force a draw. The complete crosstable result for Cat 2, click here.

My two tutelages who finish 1-2 in Category 2 of CAS Third Quarter Allegro